Republican Study Committee Chairman Kevin Hern, RSC’s Budget and Spending Task Force Chairman Ben Cline, and Members of the Budget and Spending Task Force unveiled the RSC’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget proposal, titled “Fiscal Sanity to Save America.”
The RSC Budget is a thorough plan to address our federal spending problem and start paying down our debts. The FY-25 budget balances in just seven years, cuts spending by $16.7 trillion over ten years, and reduces taxes on Americans by $5.3 trillion over ten years.
“Our budget is proof that it’s possible to balance the budget, it’s possible to operate in the black,” Chairman Hern said. “The federal debt is daunting, but it’s not hopeless. Conservative policies work together across the whole of government to lower spending, lower taxes, decrease the size and scope of the federal government, and spur economic growth. Chairman Cline and our Task Force Members have done incredible work to get this done a month early. Conservatives have a plan to restore fiscal sanity – it’s time to get to work!”
Democrats attacked Republicans over the proposed budget on key issues of Social Security and Medicare. The Democratic Party also blasted Republicans after their budget includes anti-choice restrictions and endorses a national abortion ban with zero exceptions for rape or incest.
Republicans instead focused on key issues of inflation, rising costs, and out of control spending by Congress and the White House.
“Decades of Washington’s reckless spending habits have left the American People to foot the bill through high inflation and rising costs, and we cannot continue down this irresponsible path,” RSC Budget and Spending Task Force Chair Rep. Ben Cline said. “The RSC budget proposes responsible, common-sense policy that bolsters the American economy, lowers inflation, slashes wasteful spending, and reverses the harmful, regressive, wasteful, and unnecessary policies that are crushing hardworking families. It’s far past time that Washington restores fiscal responsibility, reduces spending, and balances the federal budget to get our country back on the right track.”
The budget is made up of 285 individual bills and initiatives from 192 Members.
“Under President Biden’s failed leadership, Americans are struggling to make ends meet,” said Task Force Member Rep. Bob Good. “The RSC Budget provides a blueprint to balance the budget in just seven years, secure the border, and defund Biden’s woke agenda. Thank you to RSC Budget Chairman Cline and RSC Chairman Hern for their leadership in this effort.”
“The Republican Study Committee’s FY25 budget includes conservative, commonsense policies that would square off against deficit spending and our more than $34 trillion national debt, balance the budget within seven years, and fight back against inflation, which has crippled American families for the past three years and counting,” Task Force Member Rep. Josh Brecheen said. “I thank RSC Chair Kevin Hern and Budget Task Force Chair Ben Cline for their commitment to solving our debt crisis and returning prosperity to America.”
“As Joe Biden and the Democrats continue to increase the national debt exponentially and jeopardize the future of our children, I’m proud to stand with Chairman Hern (and Chairman Cline) as we release the conservative RSC Budget,” Task Force Member Rep. Eric Burlison said. “Under Joe Biden’s Leftist dream of a budget, our national debt would continue to grow over $1 trillion every 100 days, and over 1,000 unauthorized programs would continue to be funded. It’s clear Democrats have checked their fiscal sanity at the door. Our RSC plan not only balances the national budget in a mere seven years, but also addresses the woes Americans are suffering today due to Democrats’ irrational spending, including rising inflation, high gas prices, and of course, the tumor-like growth of the federal bureaucracy. It’s time to get our fiscal house in order, and it starts by implementing the responsible policies outlined in this budget.”
“Unlike Joe Biden’s delusional and irresponsible spending spree, the proposal produced by the RSC actually balances the budget in 7 years, reduces spending by trillions of dollars, protects Social Security and Medicare, and offers the fiscal responsibility that the current President has lacked throughout his entire fifty years in government,” Task Force Member Rep. Harriet Hageman said. “Included in the RSC budget are the real priorities that Americans care about – such as border security, energy production, national security, and reining in the administrative state that is growing increasingly more invasive and costly to citizens all across the country. The federal government should be limited in scope – the RSC budget returns America to that precept.”
“President Biden’s proposed budget, which raises taxes and furthers out-of-control Democratic spending, will plunge our country into economic ruin,” Task Force Member Rep. August Pfluger said. “I am proud to have helped author the House Republican Study Committee’s alternative balanced budget under Chairman Kevin Hern’s leadership. The RSC reduces our national debt, lowers inflation, and promotes American energy dominance and growth while defending American values and freedoms.”
“Over the last year, I’ve worked with my colleagues on the Budget and Spending Task Force to develop a budget proposal that not only saves taxpayers money by balancing the budget in 7 years but also provides tax relief for working families,” said Task Force Member Rep. Beth Van Duyne. “I’m pleased our budget contains important policy wins including expanding Health Savings Accounts, building the border wall, unleashing American energy production, and growing our economy by making the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act permanent. Our budget slashes wasteful spending while prioritizing policies that create opportunities for people to live out the American dream.”
